Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:59:21 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> To: 'James Halstead' <James_Bond_79@yahoo.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD Hackers mailing list' <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Mergemaster killed symlink (was RE: Mergemaster bug + new fea ture [patch]) Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9CC2@l04.research.kpn.com>
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Dear James,
>
> > I had a mergemaster problem a while back, but I haven't debugged it
> > properly. I had my /etc/ppp symlinked into /home/root/ppp.
> Then, after a
> > mergemaster run I ended up with a file named /etc/ppp, which had the
> > contents of the new version of /etc/ppp/ppp.conf.
>
> I symlinked /etc/ppp to /usr/ppp and mergemaster updated
> fine. I then removed
> /usr/ppp making the symlink invalid and mergemaster overwrote
> the bad symlink
> with ppp.conf. Is there any chance when you ran mergemaster
> that one time your /home was not mounted?
>
Well, now that you mention it I think that I just blew away /home/root/ppp
since the box was not going to dial out anymore. Best not have passwords
lying around for no reason. :) Glad you could reproduce it.
Should I submit a PR or is this a "doctor, it hurts when I press
here"--thing?
Kees Jan
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